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why is jean luc shooting chunk?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

kenan, i lived in massachusetts for a quarter century and i never, ever heard a native give directions based on points on a compass. it was either left or right and then describe the road ("it's gonna take dip" or "you'll go up a hill" or "it'll hook around on you") or a landmark ("there's a giant boulder on your left, take the next right" or "last turn before the river").

That's the kind of directions I can understand!!! Probably because I grew up in an area built on Puritan cow paths. It wasn't until I moved here to Chicago that I even made an effort to figure out cardinal directions (hence compass).

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

That's what it was like in Ohio too. "Turn left at the Sunoco next to the drive-thru."

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

It makes sense in areas with no big geographical feature to use as an anchor point. Rehoboth Beach had the Atlantic Ocean but I still never put two and two together. People just didn't give directions that way.

They would, however, call streets by unofficial names. So instead of like, Route 9 they would tell you to take King Cole Farm Road or something.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel weird, sleepy, and kind of sick. NOOOO!!!!

Navigating in DC made me cry and cry once too, and Nick was the one driving. There are all these fucking turn-arounds like at the Arc de Triumph. They screw with your head I tell you!

― Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

hey chicago! does anyone know if i can somehow redeem my chicago card plus for the cash? i obviously don't use it anymore . . . i should dig up the paperwork they gave me & ask the CTA I suppose.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELSEY

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm still bad with cardinal directions. In Madison and Milwaukee I'm cool with E&W because there are major freeways running those directions and pointing at lakes, but I always get N&S mixed up. I feel stupid when I ask someone for directions (say in Chicago) and they say "get off at this exit and go north" and I'm all "so would that be left or right??"

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks, john! did you get my email reply?

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes! I only mentioned it here because I wanted other folks to know!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

jordan: i am the SAME way. especially here in mpls b/c at least in chicago if i know where to lake is, i know where east is. here . . . well, let's just say i get totally confused a lot.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

john, it is EXACTLY like that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i just thought my reply was funny. i was tooting my own horn there.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

HBK!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Re "What's the Best Way?": Does anyone remember who was actually in that skit? I know one of 'em was Sandler.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks, dan! i'm 29 today . . . my brother made a point of telling me that it's the last year i can say i'm "in my twenties."

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wait, it sez here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost I've got that one coming up in just over 2 months... sigh. I'm sure my sis will say the same.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Birthday, Kelsey!!

― Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks, sarah!
oh! i've been thinking about you lately b/c there's a woman in minneapolis who does the craft fair circuit & she makes sock monkeys! i'm partial to yours, of course, but some of hers have two heads! AND she sells them for a shitton of money...

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

hey waitaminute...

"Tony Vallencourt: Boston to Nashua? You goin' up there to buy liquor pally?

Stanley Sperrow: Aya, no sales tax.

Tony Vallencourt: Alright, you just gotta shoot up 95, but watch your ass crossin' over the border. Those state troopers are outa control.

Stanley Sperrow: That's correct Tony! "

if you're going from boston to nashua you wouldn't take fucking 95, that follows the coast going northeast, you'd need to take 128 to ROUTE 3, take the lowell connector then cross the bridge at 110. fuckin' morons.

sorry for perpetuating a sterotype but i'm getting cranky about stuff like this in my old age. i was sitting in a bar this weekend yelling at someone who was doing a piss-poor job of parallel parking outside. it actually made me angry that they couldn't do it.

your favorite cranky old man,
ktr

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

were they wrong about the dunkin' donuts as well?

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

yelling at someone who was doing a piss-poor job of parallel parking outside.

Hahahahaha I do this from my kitchen window at people parking on my street all the time.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course I do it more because they leave ridiculous amounts of room around their cars and cost other people (who actually live on the street -- most of the bad parkers are commuters going to the train) precious, precious parking spaces.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

for a long time i used to say that if i could have a super power it would be to squish cars together as to create additional parking spaces. although i need that power less often here, i still think it would make for a great party trick!

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

HBKelsey!

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

HAPPY BIRFDAY KELSEY!
29 is a decent year, albeit an overtly yucky prime number, but remember: when you complete your 29th year you are actually beginning your 30th. So you're on day one of your 30th year, starting...NOW.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

All things considered, I'd rather be 24 again. That was a good fucking year.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Disagree.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm with you, jordan.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

(ymmv)

And just for the record, 28 has been not-so-great (getting to know you fine folks better aside).

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

jesus you guys are old

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

IT"LL HAPPEN TO YOU

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

how do you all feel about 26? I'm expecting good things.

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

25 was pretty good, 24 was meh, really, 23 was A+++

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i had my quarter century crisis at 26.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I was not crazy about 24. In retrospect, 30-anything has been much better than 20-anything.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

26 was decent. Did a lot of snowshoeing and rode some good trails with my bros that year. Had a few dalliances with teh ladiez. Work sucked, but then I quit and moved to Chicago!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

also: i wish amanda had warned me earlier that i'd be 30 at 29. i would've treated last year with the reckless abandon of someone in their late 20s.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry! You've not yet completed your 30th year, so you don't have your 30-badge yet, but you are experiencing the tender buds of your 30s right now.

I am vastly happier at 31 than I was at 21. I was a reckless, shiftless, aimless person at 21. Now I feel a little bit calmer and a lot happier. Less like jumping around all the time, but more content. I like the 30s.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Sometimes I can't believe that on 09/06/07, I will be 30 and married. IT'S CRAZY! And yet... not so crazy. It will be a lot like now with just a few minor adjustments.

I'm feeling a lot more sick now, so Nick is going to pick me up early. Sadly though, he's coming all the way from Evanston. Owww!

― Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

if i could wake up tomorrow and be 27 but have to die at 33 i'd take that in a heart beat.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

That Owwww! was in response to belly pains.

Huh. I wouldn't. What happened when you were 27? Whenever I fantasize about going back to an earlier point in my life, I only imagine it happening with me knowing what I know now. Otherwise, I really don't feel a need to relive it.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

For someone who's as obsessive about dates as I am, I have difficulty distinguishing one year from the next in terms of quality. Each year has its ups and downs.

Also, are you guys able to remember what it was like "at age 24" without calculating what year it was? I have no idea what I did when I was 24, but if you remind me that it was 2003, everything comes into focus.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

same deal with me, it's all kind of a blur between 20 and 25 then 25 to 27 then 27 to 31 then 31 to today. i'm not very good at remembering exact dates but if you give me a year i think i'm a little sharper.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

What happened when you were 27?

happy, moderately successful, plenty of discretionary cash, madly in love, moved to chicago, body was still able to take a pounding and bounce back.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I associate feelings a lot more with ages than I do with years. It would take some serious cross-referencing to figure out exactly what I was doing in 2002.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

That's so weird.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, I never think about the fact that I'm 27, but I think about how it's 2006 all the time. What happened when I was 24? Dunno. But 2002? Oh yeah, that's when the band started, we played that Belle & Sebastian cover-song show at Schubas in June, TAG also started, Mark was in Vienna and Kelsey was in Portland, Maine, for the first few months of the year, I stayed in his room and learned how to fingerpick and read John Cheever and listened to Kings of Convenience, I read Updike's Rabbit trilogy that summer and drank a 6-pack of Schlitz by myself while reading a Gail Gr1ff1n book I ordered from Amazon and went to NYC with my family for Christmas/New Year's and saw The 25th Hour, which was my favorite of the year, and back in the winter I saw Bosco & Jorge at the California Clipper for a few Sundays in a row with Nicolas and Hstencil and met this Canadian girl named BJ M00re who asked me if I wanted to see Neal Pollack at the Hideout with her, and I was too dumb to realize she was asking me out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

when I was _____

it was a very good year

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

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